Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1904, Richard Glover, Va.

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State of Tennessee Sullivan County
on the 28 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Sullivan County now sitting Richard Glover a resident in said County and State aged about Seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 9 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
That during his residence in Fauquier County Virginia about the commencement of the Revolutionary War he cannot tell the year he served one three months tour under Colonel Marshall against the Indians that they marched to near Redstone. That as well as he recollects a peace was made with the Indians. That he got a discharge and received Ten dollars pay in Continental money
That sometime after the before mentioned campaign he served another three months tour under Capt. Amby Day - Francis Triplett Colonel - that they started from Fauquier County Virginia that they marched through Fredericktown Maryland that they were detained somewhere near the Susquehanna from which place he was discharged
That afterwards and during the revolutionary war he removed to Henry County Virginia from whence he served as a substitute for Sam Little a three months tour that his officers were Swoinfild Bell Captain and Jesse Clay Lieutenant that they joined General La Fayette at the Hobbin hills not far from Richmond where he continued until discharged
That a few weeks after his return to Henry County from the last mentioned tour he was drafted for a three months tour , that he with the Army Militia

underouzed in Pittsburgh County from whence they marched to Jamestown where they had a skirmish with the enemy that they marched from there through Williams- burg to Pigeon Hill and from thence to York where he continued untill after Cornwallis's surrender does not remember under what officer he served but got his discharge from Colonel Tucker
He further declares that for his services in each of the above mentioned towns he had a regular discharge all of which discharges with the exception of one which he sold for an old loom he has lost. That he took little care of them believing them to be of little or no value and that he has no documentary evidence to establish the facts - and that he knows of no person (except, of whose testimony is enclosed Thomas Jones) whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and that there is no minutes of the papers in his vicinity whose testimony he can procure He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Richard Glover
He We Jacob Taylor and Reuben Hicks do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Glover who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about Seventy six years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed his Jacob Taylor the day & year aforesaid Reuben Hicks
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and

after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served the States and  the and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Taylor & Reuben Nick 2 who signed the preceding certificate are residents in the neighborhood of the applicant in said County and their statement is entitled to credit
Richard Netherland Clerk of the court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for Sullivan County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Richard Glover for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of office this 20 day of August 1832 Richard Netherland Clerk By G.W. Netherland D Clerk
State of Tennessee Sullivan County on this 6th day of July 1833 personally appeared before me Isaac Longacre one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County Richard Glover and made and subscribed the following affidavit in amendment and explanation of his foregoing declaration for pension to wit, that he served four three months tours as a private as stated in his declaration but from old age and consequent loss of memory is unable at this time to state the different years or periods of the war in which the services were performed. In answer to the 13th & 2nd interrogatories of the war department he saith that he was born in Saint Marys County, Maryland as he believes in the year 1756 but has no record of his age. That two or three years after the war he removed from Henry County Virginia to Sullivan County Tennessee where he has lived ever since in answer to the 4th he saith that he served the first and second tours as a volunteer and the others as mentioned in his declaration. to the 5th he saith that in his first and second tours he cannot recollect the names of any regular officers or Regiments with whom he served, in his third tour he recollects only Genl. La Fayette, in his fourth tour he states Gen. Washington, Genl. Wayne and Colo. Tucker - as being with the troops when he served Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of July 1833
his Richard Glover mark
Isaac Longacre Justice of the Peace

Rockholds Store 2nd Feb y 1835
Hon. W. L. L. Edwards
Sir
your letter In manuscript of the 14 th of June 1834. was Rec d . with Mr Glavers papers for an increase of pension in due course of mail and I thought until recently not to make any other application, yet on perusal of your letter and the law which is before me with the original sollicitations of Mr Glaver I will Resp d suggest some of the most prominent reasons why his application in my humble opinion ought to be received part to the extent of what could be reasonably supposed his services were not withstanding the variance that would seem to exist between his declaration & supplement
I will here offer such apology for his Declaration & amendments as stated in your favor of the fourth June, when the law past it produced such excitement with the old soldiers that many of them were scarcely themselves & the weaker the more the greater would seem to be the effects of feeling where followed the difficulty of procuring proof and understanding naturally follow that in my humble opinion that the greatest difficulty amenable existed with them to sum up their fortitude & some rights etc the truth and it is the fact with out great assistance from the clerk who done their writings many of them would never

got any thing like their Just Rights for want of Recollection as the means of procuring testimony &c and many more so then Mr Glover, you will see that the applicant depose to the fact that he was ad- vised that he would not be paid for his services as a substitute nor for any time that he might be in the service over and above the time he entered the service for nor would he be paid any thing more as sergeant than as a private acting under these impressions it would appear on my humble opinion reasons sufficient to account for his error in his statements - If it will not be esteemed as intruding on your patience I will relate the cir- cumstances under which I became the clerk or agent for the applicant, some short time after Mr Carr was placed on the list of pensioners Mr Glover came to me and enquired the unit Carr got they are brother in laws & neighbors I advised him of the unit he enquired of me the cause adding that he served far longer & then urged that Carr was a sergeant he added that he was also but had been told it would not increase his pay, he then enquired of me if I would under- take for him asking I was not very willing to do after urging his claims I agreed to take a list of his services in writing and against a given time to have his papers made out he told me the delay of business prevented me from having complied with my promise I intimated to have misplaced the list that he had left with me told him we would take the list again & done so and agreed that

he should come at another day after he was gone I compared the two lists and found them substantially to agree as to all his services offered & I think there was little variance as to the dates or sea- son of the year, when he came again parts of his writings was done but not finished I then took the papers & went with him to Lane's Green where we conversed with them both together on their rehearsing their early series history of the war- together it aroused the energy of their minds and their recollections appeared to be clear & dis- tinct for their age wants of education & cir- cumstance that produced conviction on my mind that the nature of his services given at different times & their perfect agreement all harmonizing that his pay ought to be increased to the extent as set forth in his second declaration etc. taking all things together it is certain that Mr. Glover is not paid in pro- portion to his services that being the fact his first error being well accounted for must ought not to operate to his prejudice law equity & justice says the soldier ought to be paid in proportion to his services, it would seem to me although he was miser- formed at one or at many times could not recollect to give a correct history of his ser- vices, and on more mature deliberation with the assistance of the old soldiers & neighbors his mind became more clear & his recollection aroused it ought not to operate to his injury but other wise, will here remind you of the

statements of Mr Jones whose reputation is unimpeached with all who are acquainted with him being my neighbour for 38 or 40 years Mr Jones swears to the facts when he first became acquainted with Glover he understood he had served two or three towns, after removing to Henry county V. Glover came that he there saw three discharges produced to Col Penn he further swears that he knew of his own knowledge that Glover served two other towns the last two over one year all of which proof is stated as facts with in his knowledge his having the appointment of Sergeant in Glover's statements and others and Jones' belief of that fact - I will again write you the Jones' of Federal there is nothing of his belief or common report but clear facts set forth by a man both in his neighbourhood and in the church and as facts is stronger than presumptions for Mr Glover I solicit your reconsideration of his claim and humbly hope if you cannot consistently allow him to the extent that he claim disprove of his claim if for any sum and if you gave him proper the allowance I am instructed by Mr Glover to pray appeal and request of you if you please to pass the file to the office of the secretary of war for his final determination all of which is Respectfully submitted
your obt stt Wm Rockhold

July 3, 1936
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Mrs. W. M. Vaught 306 F & Holston Avenue Elizabethton, Tennessee
RICHARD GLOVER S. 1904 BA-J/MLB aw
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Abraham Cross, Richard Glover and Robert Treadway, all of Sullivan County, Tennessee.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data, and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request relative to soldiers of that war. The record of Richard Glover is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 1904, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Richard Glover was born in 1756 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland; the names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Fauquier County, Virginia, Richard Glover volunteered in April or May, 1776 or 1777, and served three months as private in Captain Marshall's company, Colonel Marshall's Virginia regiment, against the Indians near Reastone. A few weeks after returning home, he volunteered and served three months as private in Captain Amboy Day's company, Colonel Francis Triplett's Virginia regiment, stationed near the Susquehanna. After this tour he moved to Henry County, Virginia, with his friends, and while living there, served three months as orderly sergeant in Captain Swenkfield Hill's company, Colonel Skipper's Virginia regiment. He immediately volunteered and served three months as orderly sergeant in Captain Hill's Virginia company, in the same regiment. He next volunteered and served one month under Ensign Harris, engaged in guarding prisoners at Fauquier Court House and marching them to Winchester Barracks. He volunteered about the last of April or first of May, before the siege of Yorktown, was

in the battle of Jamestown, in the siege at Yorktown and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis there; he was discharged after having served on this tour eight months.
Two or three years after the Revolution, the soldier moved from Henry County, Virginia, to Sullivan County, Tennessee, where he was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
In 1835, reference was made to Richard Glover's brother-in-law, William Carr, who was his neighbor.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of Richard Glover, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:
Richard Glover Certificate #7043 Issued February 27, 1833 Rate, $30 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act June 7, 1832 Jonesborough, Tennessee Agency,
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1936, July 3, Hark to Am. H.M. Lightship
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File No. 1904
Richard Glover Pat. Off. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 143
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wm Rockhold
18 Feb. 1835
O. C.
Record, Vol. 26. p. 381

War Dept. Pen. Offic Feb 18. 1835-
Sir,
The amended declaration of Richard Glover has been filed with his other papers in this office. Unless the applicant can exhibit some additional proof to show that his first term was performed after the commencement of the revolutionary war an increase of his pension cannot be allowed. Should such evidence be exhibited his original pension certificate should be sent to this office.
Mr. Rockhold Esq. Rockhold's Store. Tennessee

War Dept. Pensions Office June 4, 1883
Sir
The declaration of Richard Glover in support of his claim to an increase of pension has been examined and it is herewith returned. In his original declaration he claimed for "He alleges to have served several tours in all twenty one months, of which time he was orderly sergeant fourteen months. In his original declaration on file in this office he claims for only four tours of three months each, in all one year, for pension, without stating the tours periods at which the service was performed. That declaration was returned for amendment. In the amended statement the applicant states that he is unable from old age and infirmity to state the periods at which the service was performed, but that he served four tours of three months each as a private and for which service he claims a pension. As it was believed that the first tour was against the Indians on the "Red Stone" was performed before the Reno war, an allowance  was allowed and as the act under which he claimed makes no provision for such service an allowance was only made for nine months. No allowance can be made

for the additional services claimed. If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Dept. that the first term was not performed till after the Reb. commencement of the Rebellious war, and allowance will be made for said term .
The papers of Henry Masingil are herewith again returned with a printed sheet, showing the objections in this case. His terms of duty should be have not been set forth as therein required.
C.W.
Mr. Rockheld Co June 4. 1884 OC
Recd. Vol. 25. p. 476-9
Mr. Rockheld Esq. Rockheld's Store Somers.

R. Flower
amended & returned
from — private 9 months, #30.
Lower borough agency
How m o
By Black

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Richard Glover which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes  no. The period at which each term was commenced should be mentioned.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes & has a device.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Certified by two Citizens XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? yes - That there was no Clergyman in the vicinity whose testimony he could procure. XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? no XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
† QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
‡ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

State of Tennessee Sullivan County 3 This day personally appeared before me erson Longacre a Justice of the peace for said County Thomas Jones of said County aged Seventy years who from bodily infir- mity is unable to attend Court who being first duly sworn accor- ding to law deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with Richard Glover now an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 17th 1832, that they both lived in Henry County Virginia towards the close of the revolutionary war that about that time said Glover served a term of duty under Capt Sweetfield Hill he as a substitute for Sam l Littlelee that afterwards he Glover was taken up as a deser- ter and carried before Col. Abraham Penn near Henry Courthouse, that deponent went with him and saw him produce three discharges and show them to Col. Penn who after looking over them immediately discharged him - that shortly after this deponent went to Loudoun County Va. where he stayed two or three months and on his return to Henry County Glover was was gone as he was told one term of duty towards Little York against the British Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of August 1832 Thomas X Jones his mark erson Longacre Justice of the peace
I do certify that Thomas Jones the above is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the Court given under my Hand & Seal 17th August 1832 erson Longacre Justice of the peace
State of Tennessee Sullivan County 3 I do certify that Thomas Jones who made and subscribed the above deposition is a person of credibility & his statements entitled to credit given under my Hand & Seal this 6th day of July 1833 erson Longacre (88) Justice of the peace

I am well acquainted with the hand writing of James Langume Esqr & know the within to be genuine
J Blair
Washington City Feb 19 th 1833.

State of Tennessee Sullivan County
On this 17 th day of Apr Feb. 1834. Richard Glaver appeared before me at the house of Thomas Jones who being first sworn according to law upon his oath Deposes & saith heretofore he applied to have his name placed on the pensioner list and was Advised by the clerk who does his writing that he could not be allowed for services as a substitute nor could he be paid for any services he rendered over & above the term he went into service for and that he would not be paid anything extra for his services as an order- ly sergeant, he says he was placed on the pensioner list as per certificate bearing date 27 th February 1833, for only $30. per annum when in fact he served in the continental army in all not less than twenty one months of said term he held the rank of an orderly sergeant fourteen months
Deponent here begins to enumerate in detail his services & says this to be taken as part of his original declaration or as a supplement thereto to and his claim Re-examine & Deponent says in Apr. or May of the year 1876 or 1877 which he is not certain he volunteered from Fauquier county Virginia for three months under Capt. Marshall Col. Marshall Regiment and did serve said three months under said officers and was discharged by his Capt. in writing and was employed said three months principally low down in Virginia on the large waters etc. In a few weeks after returning home he volunteered from said Fauquier county under Capt. Day for three months Col. Heptons Regiment and was marched through Frederick town in Maryland Leesburg Pennsylvania to the eastern shores in Ma- ryland and was employed in preventing the British from passing up the Bay plundering etc and did receive another discharge from Capt. Day. Dep. says after which he removed to Henry county Virginia with his friends and at said place he substituted for a three months tour in place of said Litorals and went under Capt. Hill Col. Skipper Regiment on entering the service says he was appointed orderly sergeant and held said rank during said tour and was marched down the country part of place called the Mobing hills and was stationed in barracks on the Bay he thinks under Gen. Lefebvre or Gen. Steubam

he saw both but neither was stationary at said place at the end of said three months he got an honorable discharge from Capt Hill and before he left the barracks he volunteered under Capt Hill for three months and held his rank as orderly sergeant for said term in the same regiment and was again discharged by Capt Hill in writing the last three months Dep. says he was marched to some station or barracks on Stanton river then to the point of James River and was under Gen. Main part of said time and was in the battle fought at Leesburg which last town he also was an orderly sergeant and was discharged in writing by Capt Hill Dep. passed through Hoaguen and fell in with Ensign Harris and volunteered under him for one month and was employed at Hoaguen courthouse in guarding prisoners, marching them to the Winchester Barracks and was discharged by said ensign in writing Dep. then returned to Henry county and after the lapse of some time there was a draft ordered and he went to Henry courthouse to stand his draft on arriving there he will recollect in the last of April or first of May he would not stand his draft but volunteered under Capt Hill for six months and was appointed orderly sergeant and held said rank until Gen. Wallace was taken at York and was attached to Col. Tucker Regiment and immediately marched down the country through Leesburg Davis town part past on to the Green hills and was engaged on the Bay and large water annoying the enemy by raiding them from plundering stock & slaves from the farm and towards the later part of said service was marched to York and was engaged in the siege, the British forces at York and at the close of said siege was discharged in writing by Col. Tucker and served eight months his term as the nature of the service was such that those whose term was out could not be spared from the army - immediately after the surren- der of the enemys forces at York Dep. went applied to the Col. earlier than was his turn and

account of one of his boys being sick who he wanted to take home as an opportunity offered for the sake to ride home - Dep says he has no record of his age from the best information in his possession he thinks he is 79 or 80 years of age that his memory is much impaired by the laps of time he has no hesitancy in admitting but does declare the foregoing narrative is the result of much reflection and consultation with those who will know of some of the services that he has yes for more all of which are worn out or long ago present at the siege of Yorktown Washington Defeat he thinks rain others further Dep says not
Sworn and subscribed before me the date first above written Richard Glover mark
John Rockhole Jp (Seal)
State of Virginia Sullivan county on the 14th day of April 1834 at my own house That he being able to leave home on account of seated pain in my hips I have made the fol- lowing statements on oath that some time in the year 1777 he became acquainted with Richard Glover in Fauquier county Virginia he then understood that he Glover had served two or three terms of duty in the army after which Dep. removed to Henry county Virginia as also did Glover and resided in the same neighborhood had when Glover first came to Henry county he was taken as a deserter and carried before Col Penn and was present when the Col gave him choice either to go to jail or to go and join the army I then saw Glover fill out three discharges and the Col read them and pronounced him a soldier and told him to go about his business, very shortly thereafter he knows that Glover substituted in my place

of said Lateral and as Defendant understood from glaver and others who appointed served as orderly ser- geant and to the best of my recollection was ser- geant for six months from then about planting corn time say the last of Apr or first of May in the spring before the death of the British forces at Yorktown glaver volunteered for six months and as I understand that term was ex- pired sergeant again and did not return until in the winter and in my opinion was right on a cross march before he returned three discharge I saw a record of two other long terms he served as I have reasons to believe on urgent I also certify that I believe his narrative as correct given under my hand this 17th Apr 1834
sworn to & subscribed before me the above states Tho. Jones Marks Wm Rockhold J.P. (Seal)
I do here by certify that Richard glaver examination was ta- ken before me and that in my opinion his state ments in said declaration is correct and that he rendered the services as he has set forth and held the rank as he has stated I also certify that Tho. Jones in my opinion is a man of truth and that his state ments is to be relied on and that the reasons why this business was done out of court and at the house of Mr Jones was because he Jones was unable to attend court giving under my hand & seal the state first above stated Wm Rockhold J.P. (Seal)
State of Tennessee S. G. W. Netherland Blk Sullivan County of the Court of Pleas for Do here- by certify that William Rockhold whose name appears to the foregoing Power of Attorney is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit are due all his Official acts as such in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office office in Bloontville the 19th May 1834 S. W. Netherland Blk By James Cloud, D.C.

306 F & Holston Ave., Elizabethton, Tenn. May 27, 1936.
Revolutionary Pension Records Office, Munitions Building, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I would appreciate very much if you kindly send me the Pension Record, Revolutionary - of Abraham Cross , Sullivan County, Tennessee.
I desire this record in order to prove the D.A.R. line of Mrs. Paul Preas of this city.
Also kindly send me the Revolutionary Pension Record of Richard Glover , Sullivan County, Tennessee.
I need this record in order to prove the D.A.R. line of Mrs. Robert Davis.
The record is also desired of Robert Treadway , Sullivan County, Tennessee. This is needed to prove the D.A.R. line of Miss Allie Folsom.
Thanking you for this courtesy, I am
Very truly yours,
Elizabeth Carriger Vaught Mrs. W. M. Vaught